Country Managing Director CEO

• Sets the strategic direction for the company ensuring alignment with the presidents group CEO and shareholders. Effectively communicates this strategic direction to the local team.
  
• Holds full responsibility for the countrys P&L ensuring both topline and bottomline financial objectives are achieved.
  
• Drives operational excellence across all business areas including sales marketing operations and business development establishing a robust operating rhythm and building scalable processes.
  
• Promotes innovation throughout the business including technology product service innovations and new approaches to marketing sales and operations.
  
• Ensures robust risk and fraud controls compliance with local regulations and proper internal controls with documented and regularly audited processes.
  
• Represents the company internally and externally actively managing relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Builds and develops a highperformance organization and leadership team.
  
  

Requirements

1. Critical competencies

• Understands clients strategic vision and operating environment. Can devise strategies to keep the company ahead while achieving ambitious growth targets.
  
• Exhibits a high tolerance for risk aggressive pursuit of goals and a strong drive to succeed.
  
• Capable of attracting managing and motivating a midsized highenergy highcaliber team ensuring they remain challenged and developed.
  
• Skilled at forming alliances with relevant local companies and governmental bodies.
  
• Possesses strong product instincts and can work effectively with regional product and engineering teams.
  

2. Core competencies:

• Demonstrates the ability to attract and manage a motivated and highperforming midsized team ensuring their continuous development.
  
• Shows high tolerance for risk abundant energy and a relentless drive to achieve success.
  
• Utilizes indepth understanding of data and analytics to manage and understand the business.
  
• Understands clients strategic vision and operating environment capable of setting and executing strategies to stay ahead and meet growth objectives even when difficult decisions are necessary.
  
• Has strong product instincts and works effectively with product and engineering teams.
  
• Excels in managing relationships with regional and local internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Demonstrates strong leadership skills securing high buyin from direct and indirect reports ensuring high engagement and psychological safety and fostering a strong company culture.
  
• Expert in hiring the right talent and developing team members through coaching training and guidance.
  
• Capable of building partnerships with relevant local companies and governmental bodies.
  
• Effectively represents the company both internally and externally with excellent English communication skills.
  

3. Experience:

• Experienced in field sales management backoffice operations (financial business support logistics operations). Experience in the lending business is a plus.
  
• Familiar with managing a techdriven business including business continuity and disaster recovery procedures.
  
• Understands risk and compliance functions having worked in financially regulated environments.
  
• Experienced in managing mid to largesized businesses and influencing senior management teams.